{"id":12578,"date":"2008-02-21T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2014-01-13T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T22:42:49","slug":"tryin-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/21\/tryin-times\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Tryin&#8217;<\/i> times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday night, authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant held a launch party for their novel <i>Gotta Keep on Tryin&#8217;<\/i> at B. Smith restaurant in Manhattan. DeBerry and Grant had just completed a 14-city tour in support of their newest novel,  the sequel to their 1997 bestseller <i>Tryin&#8217; to Sleep in the Bed You Made<\/i>. At least 100 of their friends and fans (if not 150; a head count was difficult) turned out at the elegant restaurant to cheer them on, share wine and hors d&#8217;oeuvres, learn about a possible film adaptation, and get copies of the new book autographed.<\/p>\n<p>I was one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ScottDeBerryGrant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ScottDeBerryGrant-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ScottDeBerryGrant\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ScottDeBerryGrant-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ScottDeBerryGrant.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/02\/10\/high-school-memories\/\">As I&#8217;ve mentioned before<\/a>, I attended high school with Donna, so I was thrilled to be able to join in the celebration of her and Virginia&#8217;s hard-won success. (You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157603948567850\/\" target=\"_blank\">a few more pictures from the night here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday night, authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant held a launch party for their novel Gotta Keep on Tryin&#8217; at B. Smith restaurant in Manhattan. DeBerry and Grant had just completed a 14-city tour in support of their newest novel, the sequel to their 1997 bestseller Tryin&#8217; to Sleep in the Bed You Made. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12580,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions\/12580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}